The Coming Wrath Of God Upon Iran

On the 23rd of January 2026, The Mahdi Abdullah Hashem gave a very powerful sermon from his pulpit at The Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light headquarters to commemorate The Festival of The Will. During this historic speech, Aba Al-Sadiq made a very clear prophecy in which he declared that Iran is in imminent danger of annihilation along with the Arabs. For the purposes of this article, I will focus on the part of the sermon where Aba Al-Sadiq declares his warning after giving the context for the coming punishment.

“God is punishing you, O Arabs, through Israel and the United States as He punished Israel before through the Romans and the Babylonians. The exact same thing also happened before in 1999 when Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan the Yamani proclaimed the Will and called towards the Supremacy of God. He warned of a punishment to come if you rejected him and indeed you rejected him and you tried to imprison and kill him. A few years later, Iraq was conquered by the United States and Saddam Hussein became the first of many Arab leaders, Lanatullah Alayhum (May Allah Curse Them), and governments in the region to fall. The fact of the matter is that God established His proof upon the Arabs and He sent multiple warners and warnings to them, but they refused to listen. They traded in Mohammed and the Family of Mohammed, Fatimah and her children, for Pharaoh, Nimrod, Yazeed and Abu Sufyan. They rejected Jesus and they chose Barabbas and Caesar instead.

And for that reason, God has turned His face from them and no longer considers them to be the ummah of Mohammed, the true chosen people of God. But rather God's chosen people are those who uphold the Will of Mohammed. That's why Mohammed and his family said “with the Qaim are very few Arabs”. And the Prophet Mohammed said, “May God curse Khosrow” the Shah of Persia. “Verily, the first of the people to be destroyed is Persia and then the Arabs.” And that's what you see coming to pass. Today, Persia is about to be destroyed and tomorrow after that will be the Arabs. So today I have conveyed what I was commanded to convey. I have reminded you of the covenant and I have recited to you the Will. I have named the proof of God upon you. And I have warned you of the consequence of turning away. There is no compulsion in religion and there's no compulsion upon you, but there is accountability and there is no excuse after knowledge. O Allah, You are my witness that I have delivered, O Allah, You are my witness that I did not conceal. O Allah, You are my witness that I called to You alone, to Your authority alone and to those that You appointed. So whoever responds, responds for his own soul. And whoever turns away then Allah is not in need of the worlds.”

I will break down this quote later on, but for now we need to examine the reaction of the Iranian authorities to this Holy call since Ahmed Al-Hassan proclaimed himself in Iraq in 1999, before the fall of Saddam Hussein. Ahmed Al-Hassan joined the Hawza of Najaf (the Islamic Seminary) in 1999 upon instruction of his father and master Mohammed ibn Al-Hassan Al-Askari. With this instruction came a direct order to notify the world of his call. He sent several letters to world leaders. One of his letters was addressed to the “supreme leader” of Iran, Ali Khamenei in which he demanded that he turn over the leadership of the republic of Iran to Imam Mahdi. Another letter was addressed to the former U.S. president George Bush warning him of the consequences of his actions in Iraq. Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan also addressed the people of Iraq asking them for support.

For several years Ahmed Al-Hassan continued with his work, calling the Shia of Najaf to the obligation within their doctrine, that of recognising the spiritual and political authority of the Ahlul-Bayt. As his message grew in support, so did the agenda to bring him down. Saddam commissioned the Qur’an to be written in his blood and this act was condemned by Ahmed Al-Hassan as soon as he had emerged with his call. Saddam had his forces arrest individuals who were in contact with Ahmed Al-Hassan in the Hawza of Najaf. In his condemnation of the abominable act of having the Qur’an written in blood by Saddam, Ahmed Al-Hassan proclaimed this to be the act which Allah would bring about the downfall of Saddam for.

Ahmed Al-Hassan continued his call after the fall of Saddam and as his following grew the religious authorities became more and more threatened as he was exposing the corruption of their methods, including the abuse of the financial system of the Ahlul-Bayt for their own benefit and the fact that they were no longer teaching from the Qur’an in their curriculum instead focusing on the linguistics. They had abandoned the teachings and explanations of the Qur’an from the Ahlul-Bayt and instead been using their own opinions for many rulings; most of all, the curriculum and its proponents had completely abandoned the Supremacy of God and advocated for the supremacy of the people. The religious institutions of Iraq were no longer calling the people to the support and allegiance to the Imams from the Family of Mohammed and instead were now proclaiming the so-called ayatollahs as the Imams who must be obeyed. The threat posed by his exposure of their methods necessitated a counter reaction and so they began to publish books against Ahmed Al-Hassan. The Hawza of Najaf collaborated with the Hawza of Qom along with the intelligence agencies of both countries to bring about the downfall of Ahmed Al-Hassan. This culminated with the attempted plot to assassinate Ahmed Al-Hassan in 2007; in 2003 Ahmed Al-Hassan made a public declaration and prophecy in one of his sermons where he declared his innocence from them and his occultation, but he warned that he will return with his father Mohammed ibn Al-Hassan Al-Askari in The Sermon of The Meeting of Imam Al-Mahdi.

“Do not be happy by me leaving you and migrating from your lands for it won’t be long before I return, with my father Mohammed Ibn Al-Hassan Al-Mahdi, who shall not give you except the sword and death under the shadow of the sword!” - Sermon of the Meeting of Imam Al-Mahdi, Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan)

The Sermon of The Story of Meeting of Imam Al-Mahdi is incredibly detailed and full of what may be construed as warnings to the people of Iraq. It is a recommended read, saying 209 from the book Sayings of Ahmed Al-Hassan.

Translation: ‘Demand for a technocratic government!!’

After 2007 and the disappearance of Ahmed Al-Hassan from Iraq, various movements emerged proclaiming themselves as being directed by Ahmed al-Hassan, most notably the Najaf office of the White Banners which was officially established in approximately 2006, while the Facebook page was established at the end of 2012. It was after this period that both the office and Facebook page were met with approval from the Iraqi authorities. The White Banners were originally raised by Ahmed Al-Hassan and he had even established several hussainiyas in Iraq, these were simple places of worship and they proudly displayed the banner of the Yamani. Using a falsified voice of Ahmed Al-Hassan they began manipulating followers and corrupting the essence of his call as exemplified by their declaration and approval of the elections when they advocated for a government composed of technocrats which is a blatant contradiction to the core of Ahmed Al-Hassan’s message of Supremacy to God. How can a representative office speaking in the name of a man condemning elections and all forms of secular government call for a “technocratic” government? Many saw the contradiction in this act because Ahmed Al-Hassan stood for the Supremacy of God, i.e. only God can appoint the leader.

Ahmed Al-Hassan later began his interaction with the splinter group of the faithful led by Abdullah Hashem communicating with them regularly; and this was intensified officially when in 2015 Abdullah Hashem emerged as instructed declaring the end of the occultation of the Twelfth Imam, Mohammed ibn Al-Hassan Al-Askari, confirming the prophecy from Mohammed in which he states:

“There shall rule Hijaz a man whose name is the name of an animal, if you look at him from afar you will think that he is cross-eyed but if you come close to him his eyes seem normal, he will be succeeded by a brother named Abdullah, woe to our Shia from him (he repeated this thrice), give me glad tidings of his death and I shall give you glad tidings of the appearance of the Hujjah (Imam Mahdi)” - 250 Signs until the Appearance of Imam Mahdi , Muhammad Ali Tabatabai, Sign No. 88, p. 136

This was an incredibly pivotal moment due to the fact that the Shia world had been waiting for this prophecy to come true since Abdullah bin Abdulaziz came to rule over Saudi Arabia in 2005, it was widely discussed in Shia circles all over the world as the sign for the emergence of the long awaited 12th Imam from the family of Mohammed, Mohammed ibn Al-Hassan Al-Askari. Unfortunately, when it came to pass and the lone voice of Abdullah Hashem announced that it had come true, the clerics of Shia Islam began to distance themselves from it and weaken this particular narration. Fortunately, the Sixth Imam confirmed this specific prophecy when he said:

It is narrated from Fazl, from Uthman bin Isa, from Darast bin Abi Mansour, from Ammar bin Marwan, from Abu Basir that he said: I heard Imam Ja’far Al-Sadiq say:

“Whoever guarantees for me the death of Abdullah, I shall guarantee for him the Qaim.” Then he said: “After the death of Abdullah, the people will not have consensus on any person after him and this matter will not end except with your Companion, God willing. The kingdom running into years will end and the kingdom running into days and months will begin.” I (the narrator) asked: “Would this matter be prolonged?” He replied: “No.” - Ghaybat Al-Tusi , Al-Shaikh Al-Tusi, Vol. 1, p. 467

This confirmation endorses the validity of the original prophecy by the prophet Mohammed. Nobody else on Earth has come forth to confirm the fulfilment of this prophecy other than Abdullah Hashem Aba Al-Sadiq.

Since this proclamation, the religious authorities in Iraq and Iran have intensified their aggression towards this claim and call. The Najaf office has clearly been allowed to operate in Iraq freely with approval from the government and this is confirmed in a statement made by a government official at 4:29 of the video in the link and therefore no longer posed a threat and hence the permission for it to continue operating unabated and with funding. The literature published by the various religious authorities in Iraq to discredit Ahmed Al-Hassan and his movement, especially the Black Banners movement, reached over seventy five books and that number continues to rise. 

Iran took a less covert approach when they began their oppression of believers in Iran since 2019 due to their online activity declaring their faith and promoting it innocently through social media; Iranian authorities have ramped up efforts to identify and prosecute members of this faith, whose teachings oppose the principle of "Wilayat Al-Faqih" (Rule of the Jurisprudent), a core element of the Iranian regime. This opposition has led to their classification as "enemies of the state" and their religion as a "hostile and deviant group.". That year three believers were arrested and imprisoned in the notorious Evin prison where they were subjected to all kinds of abuse in the name of interrogating them. The state’s efforts intensified when ‘The Goal of the Wise’ was published in 2022. Iranian state-media produced a defamatory propaganda documentary portraying the faith as a Mossad-backed, anti-Islamic movement, and its followers as “Agents of the West”. It called on Iranian citizens to take action against the faith in Iran. The documentary was aired on national television, prompting family members to report members of the faith to the religious authorities and this resulted in their imprisonment and persecution. The authorities had produced a television series in which the aim was to expose false mahdi claimants and a minimum of two episodes targeted both Ahmed Al-Hassan and Abdullah Hashem.

Since 2022 various reports have documented the detention of believers in Iran by the authorities in the name of the state and protecting the state from this so-called “hostile and deviant group”. One such report by CAP Freedom of Conscience provided some details of the persecution faced by fifteen members of the religion in Iran:

“Among the religious minorities that are severely persecuted in Iran, there is the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light community, whose concerns I will be raising today: Members of the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light in Iran endure severe state-sponsored religious persecution. They are unable to freely practice their faith and live in constant fear for their safety and lives. The Iranian authorities label them as “heretics” and “infidels,” branding their religion as a “misguided movement” and “hostile and deviant group.””

Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF) reported on the detention of thirteen believers in Iran in 2023; along with the United States Office of International Religious Freedom. This story was covered by various Human Rights Organisations and press outlets. Tragically two of those incarcerated were minors under the age of thirteen. The Iranian state sponsored media continued to undermine and discredit both Abdullah Hashem and Ahmed Al-Hassan through the use of various members of the clergy in Iran like the so-called “Ayatollah” Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Qazvini and media personalities like Ali Sharifi. Qazvini has gone as far as declaring that the leader of the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light deserves death.

In fact, television presenter Ali Sharifi dedicated an entire section on his website to The Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light with the aim of describing the faith as blasphemous bolstering the statement by Qazvini. In Iran, blasphemy is often criminalized under Article 262 of the Islamic Penal Code. Iran treats blasphemy as a serious crime and may apply the death penalty to those accused of this crime. Iran also has a law against “spreading corruption in the land” (Mofsed-e-filarz) which is a carte blanche to criminalise anything which can include political dissent and any actions deemed undesirable by the state. Punishment for this crime includes anything from imprisonment to execution thus reflecting the strict control exercised by the Iranian government over political or social behaviour. 

This channel has since been closed down by YouTube, most likely for political reasons.

Some of the stories of the persecuted believers in Iran are heart wrenching. One story is of a small business owner who made his living from making wedding videos. His shop was stormed by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, they broke everything destroying tens of thousands of dollars worth of equipment solely because he had produced some work promoting Abdullah Hashem Aba Al-Sadiq online. They grabbed him by his neck and took him to his home and forced him to repent and renounce his faith with the threat of marrying his daughters who were minors and this inhumane method of intimidation worked. He lost his family due to pressures from these experiences and now has been sleeping in his car for the past seven years. 

Another believer, Mohammedreza Shekariyanasl, who was one of the thirteen believers imprisoned in Evin prison has been missing, feared dead, since the beginning of December. He was in regular contact with family members in Iran and abroad; he had reported some of the methods used by the regime in Evin prison including sleep deprivation through the use of glaring lights.

One fifty year old has been under pressure and ostracised by his family due to their experiences with the government solely for his belief in The Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light.

Due to security concerns, some of the names of the believers mentioned have been withheld for their own safety as they remain in Iran and their situations remain precarious. 

Some of the measures used to eliminate the presence of The Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light in Iran has been to force those captured to publicly renounce their faith after being arrested, threatened and tortured in Evin prison. Prisoners are forced to pay bail in only to attend court with some bails costing a preposterous $120,000.00 per person. Many of the believers in Iran were forced to escape to Turkey where they faced further persecution when they attempted to cross over to Bulgaria in 2023. During their detention they faced deportation back to Iran and this was documented at the United Nations Human Rights Council in a press release on the 4th of July 2023, this was followed up by an officially recognised report submitted by The Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light highlighting in particular the persecution faced in Iran.

Why highlight all of this persecution by the Iranian regime? 

“Whoever chooses to be guided, it is only for their own good. And whoever chooses to stray, it is only to their own loss. No soul burdened with sin will bear the burden of another. And We would never punish ˹a people˺ until We have sent a messenger ˹to warn them˺.” - The Holy Qur’an 17:15

This verse clearly indicates that God does not send a punishment upon a people unless He sends a Messenger with a warning beforehand and this has clearly repeated throughout history. Punishment would only strike a nation after a Messenger had warned them of the impending punishment. So in that context we see that during his sermon published on the 23rd of January, Abdullah Hashem Aba Al-Sadiq clearly reminded the world of the warnings, plural, which came before in the names of Ahmed Al-Hassan and Aba Al-Sadiq himself. In reference to Ahmed Al-Hassan, he said:

“He warned of a punishment to come if you rejected him and indeed you rejected him and you tried to imprison and kill him. A few years later, Iraq was conquered by the United States and Saddam Hussein became the first of many Arab leaders, Lanatullah Alayhum (May Allah Curse Them), and governments in the region to fall.”

It is widely known and documented that Iraq has been unstable and in turmoil since 2003, a short while after Ahmed Al-Hassan had delivered the Sermon of Meeting Imam Al-Mahdi (see link above). Between the end of 2003 and 2007, before Ahmed Al-Hassan left Iraq, there was ample time for those who had heard his call to take heed of his warnings. Alas, they ignored the warner and calamities befell them.

Iran is well known for being a repressive regime in the Middle East and this has never before resulted in more than sanctions and public condemnation by globally recognised bodies over the past twenty five years usually in response to some repressive activity within Iran or some other geopolitical decision which does not sit well with the Western superpowers. The odd skirmish here and there by various nations including the USA and Israel would result in the assassination of key players in roles of leadership, or some infrastructure being damaged. Since December 2024, Aba Al-Sadiq Abdullah Hashem has posed a direct challenge and warning to the most eminent cleric in Iran - Ali Khamenei - when he addressed him and Ali Al-Sistani in an episode of The School of Divine Mysteries directly with a warning entitled The Mahdi Aba Al-Sadiq responds to ‪Al-Sistani. This address to the two most eminent clerics in Shia Islam was largely ignored and trivialised by anyone who attempted to challenge The Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light from the Shia school of thought.

Iran has been the subject of much attention since the economic protests began at the end of December 2025. This was exacerbated when the Iranian authorities began to clash with the protesters necessitating the intervention of foreign powers on the global arena resulting in several stories reporting on Iran in the press daily since the 6th of January. As hostilities grew in the country with protesters resisting the repressive regime with violence, Donald Trump became the voice of the main threat to Iran with Israel and the EU in support of the protesters, while Ali Khamenei spoke defiantly with very few impartial supporters who only seem to call for de-escalation rather than make escalatory statements for the purpose of regional stability. With all the tensions over the past decade there was never a clear and direct warning like this before from a Messenger from God. Aba Al-Sadiq Abdullah Hashem spoke candidly during his most recent sermon when he addressed Iran and said:

“And the Prophet Mohammed said, “May God curse Khosrow” the Shah of Persia. “Verily, the first of the people to be destroyed is Persia and then the Arabs.” And that's what you see coming to pass today. Persia is about to be destroyed and tomorrow after that will be the Arabs.”

Here he referred to a narration by prophet Mohammed in which he cursed Khosrow and prophesied the demise of Persia and the Arabs, notice that the narration is quoted in several books but weakened through the chain of narrators according to the opinion of the authors: Sa’d approached the Prophet.

When the Prophet saw him, he said, 

“There is good news in Sa’d’s face.” Sa’d said, “Khosrow has been killed.” The Prophet said, “May God curse Khosrow! The first people to perish will be the Arabs, then the Persians.”

Narrated by: Abu Hurairah • Al-Haythami, Majma` Al-Zawa`id (7/293) It contains Dawud ibn Yazid Al-Awdi, who is considered weak. It was also narrated by Ahmad (10664).

He said: Sa’d approached the Prophet. When the Prophet saw him, he said, 

“There is news in Sa’d’s face.” He said, “Khosrow has been killed.” He said: The Messenger of Allah said: “May Allah curse Khosrow. The first people to perish will be the Arabs, then the Persians.”

Narrated by: Abu Hurairah, Shu'ayb al-Arna'ut, Takhrij al-Musnad li Shu'ayb (10655) Its chain of narration is considered weak. It was also narrated by Ahmad (10655) and al-Bazzar, as mentioned in Majma' al-Zawa'id by al-Haythami (7/293).

The fact that such a narration exists is significant. The fact that it is weakened through the opinions of the so-called scholars of Islam shows just how necessary it is for an individual with actual authority from God to determine the reality of the narration for the rest of the people. The reasons for weakening the narration are unclear, regardless, it is clear that there is a deeper function behind it and its relevance only becomes clear when it is explained in the appropriate context. 

The importance of this specific quote by Aba Al-Sadiq during the sermon is very clear in the backdrop of what is currently going on with Iran; and more specifically what he has previously revealed during an episode of The School of Divine Mysteries on The Mahdi Has Appeared channel titled Body, Self, Ego & Soul, at 36 minutes onwards he reiterates a revelation from Ahmed Al-Hassan where he declared Ali Khamenei as the return of Khosrow, the Persian king who lived in the time of the Prophet Mohammed; also in another episode from Answers To Your Questions titled The Israel-Iran War and the Fate of The Muslims, at 12 minutes onwards he states that Khamenei is the return or reincarnation of Khosrow. In this context the narration becomes a prophecy which nobody has ever been able to decipher and put in the correct context until now with the Qaim, the Riser from the Family of Mohammed. The destruction of the Persians and the Arabs is imminent and it has never been so inevitable as it is now; and in particular in light of the excessive oppression towards those who happened to believe in the call of the Mahdi through his messengers, namely Ahmed Al-Hassan and Abdullah Hashem Aba Al-Sadiq. The attacks directed at the Messengers themselves just enacts a repetition of history as documented in the various scriptures and stories of the Prophets and Messengers known to the masses around the world.

With all the mainstream press intensifying their coverage of events in Iran it becomes apparent that there is a build up just as we have seen before previous conflicts to justify the military action beforehand to the general public. 

The BBC, CNN, Reuters and Al-Jazeera have all greatly increased the number of articles they are publishing surrounding the political situation in Iran. This implies that we are on the brink of an excursion. In fact, since the sermon was uploaded on the 23rd on The Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light YouTube channel, several articles appeared that very day and the following few days after declaring that president Trump had sent out the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier group towards Iran in the Middle East. Being one of the crown jewels of the US Armed Forces, this deployment represents a definite escalation of the situation for Iran. The geopolitical rhetoric since then is also reflective of a serious intensification of the conditions for Iran in response to the Iranian government’s crackdown on protesters angry at the economic deterioration in the country since the end of December.

With the circumstances surrounding Iran worsening, it seems like it is merely a matter of time before the entire world will witness the prophecy and warning stemming from Abdullah Hashem Aba Al-Sadiq come to pass. When it does, and it will, maybe then those who oppose him will recognise the Divine authority manifested within him.